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Healthy and safety measures
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Introduction 3
Literature review 4
Methodology 5
Research timeline 9
Conclusion 10
Bibliography 11

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Introduction
Energy is an important aspect in every nation; it cuts through economy, social-political
and environmental sphere of every nation.[ CITATION Gal15 \l 1033 ] In the Netherlands oil and gas
are the most depended in terms of energy production. The country uses oil and gas in their daily
life activities. Apart from energy obtained from oil and gas the country also obtains energy from
hydropower biomass and coal, though they do not contribute as much as energy from oil and gas.
[ CITATION Kel14 \l 1033 ] Oil and gas provide about half of the energy used in Netherland. Oil and
gas have been providing energy for more than a half a century. In the last one-decade
consumption of oil and gas has increased by about 60%. This has brought various effects in the
industry producing the energy in the Netherlands,both upstream and downstream.[ CITATION
Lan16 \l 1033 ] Due to an increase of consumption of energy the industries has been forced to
produce more petroleum and gas to cater to the growing demand, this has brought implication in
both the environment and human safety.Although energy produced from oil and gas is the
backbone of the growth of the economy in the Netherlands, it also has a great effect on the
environment and human safety.[ CITATION Cla18 \l 1033 ] The energy is both interconnected with
technology development and steady growth of the economy of the nation.[ CITATION McB17 \l
1033 ] The upstream sector in petroleum involves the search for and production of oil and gas
which comprises activities such as for as evaluation, exploration,development, production and
decommissioning. While downstream involve refining, product storage, transportation,
distribution and lastly retailing.[ CITATION San16 \l 1033 ] In both cases, their activities pose a
great effect on human health, safety,and the environment.[ CITATION McB17 \l 1033 ]These effects
pose a great challenge to the nation forcing the government to come up with tight rules and
regulations regarding petroleum activities. This is by coming up in the way of curbing effects

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brought by the activities involving petroleum production and balancing them with the economic
benefit.Many hypotheses have been brought out concerning the effects of petroleum in the
nation; some believe that discovery of petroleum causes political instability, wealth and others
disease such as cancer and calamities.[ CITATION McK17 \l 1033 ] Most of the hypothesis has been
rejected others accepted.This brought into concern that leads my team and me to critically
investigate the effect in health, safety and environment caused by downstream sector in oil and
gas production in the Netherlands.[ CITATION Par17 \l 1033 ]
Literature review
Since the energy from oil and gas had been discovered, there has been a great effect of its
production to both the safety, human health, and environment.[ CITATION Red17 \l 1033 ]A
scientist has related this causes due to a poor method of handling petroleum.[ CITATION Sil17 \l
1033 ] Most private owned refinery organization value profit more than the effect the product
has. In 2010 there was a sitting in the world conducted by the World Health Organization
(WHO) to come up with measures to curb environmental pollution. This rose a lot of question on
what contributes to high pollution of the environment.[ CITATION San16 \l 1033 ] Industry activities
were termed as the most contributors in pollution of the environment which causes harm to
nature and also health safety of human being. In the Netherlands, most of the gas field about 470
have been discovered which about 25 are exploited.The effects of petroleum products especially
in downstream production have been motivated by the following factors, accident, and disaster
especially for transportation and retailing sector, in recent years cases,have risen in Netherland
and involving gas leakage or burst of oil pipes which caused explosion and pollution of the
environment.[ CITATION San16 \l 1033 ] This rose eye browse of the environmental conservation